On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country's increasingly compromised role in Am...
This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - sh...
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even with 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way, involving a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his family's past which throws up some surprising revelations.A story for our times, Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, sur...
Rachel i jej przyjaciółka Alison, lat 10, są zaintrygowane domem numer 11 i jego właścicielką nazywaną Szaloną Kobietą Ptasznikiem, szczególnie od czasu, gdy zauważyły w oknie jego piwnicy dziwną sylwetkę… Val Doubleday, matka Alison, po jedynym sukcesie, o którym wszyscy dawno zapomnieli, wciąż chce zrobić karierę piosenkarki. Zanim to jednak osiągnie musi pracować w bibliotece – niestety w coraz mniejszym wymiarze godzin z powodu budżetowych oszczędności. Mając zbyt dużo w...
